Kanji
Readingちく
Frequency18%
Used in (45 in total)
bamboo thicket; bamboo grove
firecracker
bamboo spear
(with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force
stilts (for walking); hobby horse
breaking bamboo
pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping); high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower
bamboo writing strip
childhood friend; old playmate
bamboo divination stick
oleander; Nerium oleander var. indicum; rosebay
chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake
moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens); tall bamboo cultivated for its edible shoots
bamboo charcoal
marbled bamboo (Chimonobambusa marmorea)
China pink (species of flower, Dianthus chinensis)
Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)
(traditional Japanese) musical instruments
bamboo material
Chinese sugarcane (Saccharum sinense) (used for making wasanbon)
black bamboo
bamboo wife; Dutch wife
Castillon bamboo (cultivar of Japanese timber bamboo, Phyllostachys bambsoides)
light pink (color, colour)
Chinese bamboo; bamboo imported from China (often used to make flutes)
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake; Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
grilled chikuwa
nagi (species of conifer, Nageia nagi)
bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt
flour paste cake in the form of a tube
Rhapis humilis; rhapis
Japanese ginseng (Panax japonicus)
type of bamboo
type of open-ended bamboo flute
Chinese sugarcane (Saccharum sinense)
Chinese temple bamboo (Sinobambusa tootsik); tootsik bamboo
hedge bamboo (Bambusa multiplex); golden goddess bamboo
Bambusa multiplex var. elegans (variety of hedge bamboo)
centipede plant (Homalocladium platycladum); tapeworm plant; ribbonbush
Arundo donax